refused to do so but the religious complection of the israeli defense forces is steadily increased so religion is now very much bound up with its operations of the language of some rabbis during cast lead was simply hair raising in terms of evoking old testament images of genocide against non jews. i think also it's true that this use of language reflects the fact that the israeli palestinian struggle which began as a sort of struggle between two competing nationalisms became a struggle between arabs and israelis has now become a struggle between jews and muslims in the western media though the operation pillar of cloud was renamed pillar of defense quite suppose it sounds less alarming defense is a good thing isn't it. attacking people behind a cloud perhaps maybe isn't. evoking memories of old testament violence raises questions perhaps in the broader world. so this is the sort of typical example of what the israelis call. which is control of narrative. and propaganda and they do it very well in two thousand and nine you were nominated to lead the national intelligence council in president o